Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-06-09

Havana fish markti'
In Montana great mlay miners re-
coive 81 so 4 day.
The brewers of New York spent
sS5, 900 last year in caring for sick
workmen.
During the year 1886 taxes were
paid on 3,5i0,SgS,5SS cigars in this
country.
In most large cites they have press
clubs ba: Philadelphia has y Journal
lists Club.
The merchants of Sayannah GaS
propose adopting business hours eX-
tending from 3 4. IN to 6 p. m.
The first temperance society in this
country WAS organized in Saratoga
county, New York, in March, 1908.
Locomotives now run in Jerusalem,
and the shrill steam whistle is heard in
the streets once trod by King David.
London society has no further use
for Oscar Wilde, and this is why he has
discontinued making fool OF himself
The city of MazAtian, Mexico is
spending Sl2,a day for the na;nten-
ance of the Cinnamon out Of work at
that port.
King Kalakaua, Of the Hawaiian Is
lands, has gambled away $1,000 de-
posted by poor people in the Postal
Savings Bank.
+. w. Kcnnic, of San Francisco,
says that city his 500 young women
who are heiresscs to 100000 or more
each, and all are unmarried.
The Rev. DR., Bar5oar, pastor of Yale
University, finding himself unable
longer to ''hold" student congrcc1-
tion, has rendered his resignation, TO
take effect next June
A Japanese has invented method
Of weaving carpets with feathers The
feathers are reduced to silky state ~
the use of chemicals, and then woven
like ordinary cotton.
A new employment for woman is
suggested by person who does not
sec why they should not tune their own
piano, and also lind suitable and re-
muneratiye work in tuning the pianos
of others.
.Feathcrbone, an article prepared
from the quilts Of geese and turkeys, is
largely taking the place Of whalebonc
in the manufacture Of whips, etc, for
which whalcbonc was formerly used eX-
clusively.
Alma Tadema, the artist. has fitted
up new house at London in queer
fashion. Its exterior presents in little
bits nearly all the styles of all the ages,
from the days of classic glory to the
present time.
The sultan of Morocco has had his
feelings hurt by the obstinacy of the
press in complaining Of the continued
sale OF young girls in his dominions.
He wants editors bowStringcd and the
newspaper business in Tangiers wiped
out.
A resident of Palatka, Fla, has in
vented sewing machine that promi-
ses to do great things The attach
ment consists of number of wires so
arranged that scraps of cloth are scwed
on base in substantial manner, and
rugs, trimmings, lambrequins, etc,
can be made very rapidly.
At Montreal, one day recently, n wo-
man rushed into the police station and
asked if any stray children had been
found by the police, and was informed
that there were live in the different
stations whcreupon she exclaimed:
al have lost seven Where are the
other two?"
Jaa,uschek, the actress, is a victim
of the ''ih.tTcn" superstition. Dur
ing her recent engagement at Indian
apolis she refused to occupy Il room hay-
inc the mystic number above the door,
exclaiming: "Mcin Got yoI want TO
kill me!' and no persuasion could in
duce her to lie quartcred therein.
A ton of mica month is mined IN
North Carolina. 1t is all used by the
stove manufacturers in the north.
Ex-senator Warner Miller is about
to build the largest wood-pulp paper
mill on the continent at Palmer's Fall,
N. Y.
A leader writer in The London Daily
Telegraph describes New York as "the
least immaculate municipality in ex-
istence."
Miss Mollie Garfield, daughter of
the late President Garfield, has fin
ished her studies. She is taller than
her mother.
Queen Victoria will not accept any
jubilee presents from private individ-
uals with whom she is not personally
acquainted.
Mrs. Potter denies that she intends
to elevate the stage. If she will use
her influence to lower the bonnets all
may be forgiven.
A piece of ground on Broadway,
New York, 25x100 feet, was sold the
other day for 1856, 20O-at the rate Of
$4,500,000 per acre.
Queen Kapiolane of the Sandwich
Islands is contemplating tour of the
United States this year. She will be
accompanied by large retinue.
At Bergen, in Norway, is church
constructed Of papier mache which
will accommodate nearly a thousand
persons. 1t is octagon in shape.
James Mutt, the Uniontown, Pa,
youth who shot Dukes for debauching
Ills olSbSl anu hiAlihS Ills ldNHNAi hdo
gone to Kansas to manage farm.
Senator Payne and Brastus Wiman
are at the head of a gigantic syndicate
which proposes to purchase or control
all the iron-ore deposits of Canada.
Goodwin Smith is about to sell his
interest in the Toronto Week. This IS
caused by increasing ill-health, which
renders compulsory work irksomc.
Who's your dressmaker? instead of
Who's your grandfather? is the latest
social query, before giyinga much COW
etcd cachet to aspiring 'somebodies
The Duke of Westminster has prom
Used to give, during the remainder of